Sunday, September 19, 2004

Review of a Review

As I know from reading him in the FT magazine, Macaulay shares the anti-Iraq
war view that has become more or less the orthodoxy, though not generally
in the FT mag, and here he says 'Since I bear no love for Bush and company...'

The review is inadvertently revealing. 'You can't help wanting Tim Robbin's
Embedded to be better than it is.' He expresses this idea 3 times.
One character 'seems funny in retrospect - even though it's virtually impossible
to laugh at him in the theatre.'

So, he's honest enough to admit that the play is not very good. What
he doesn't want to see is that the play is bad, not because of any technical
failings, but because its whole argument is superficial.